Autor, David H.; Palmer, Christopher J.; Pathak, Parag A. - 2012
1995 elimination of stringent rent controls in Cambridge, Massachusetts that had previously muted landlords' investment … residential property and the prices and characteristics of all residential transactions between 1988 and 2005, we find that rent … decontrolled units. Elimination of rent control added about $1.8 billion to the value of Cambridge's housing stock between 1994 and …